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Hello I want to add some things that deal with the crisis of this country. Obama care is the topic I want to deal with. When Obama care was passed in 2010 without one GOP vote it was called “Affordable health Insurance” Obama said that “If you like your plan you will be able to keep it” Well in the last month or so perhaps a million or more people myself included received letters from their insurance providers stating that our plans were being discontinued Dec 21, 2013. My company is Highmark Blue Shield btw. The reason? They were not in compliance with the new Obama care law. They encouraged me to either purchase a replacement plan directly from them and of course to visit the exchanges to see if I qualify for subsidies. Well as you all know millions of people have visited these exchanges with very few actual sign ups. So I am looking to my health care provider for what plans they are offering as replacement plans. Due to the fact that I had pre existing conditions due to a long illness I am currently stuck with a HIPPA plan which is very expensive. I have picked out what I think will be the best replacement plan for me. And I may luck out to some degree. The fact that Obama care gets rid of the pre existing conditions might be a good thing for me so the plan I can get is affordable for me on my budget. But I am fortunate to be one of those few people that will not be as affected by the monthly cost of health insurance. Certain factors in my life which I will not get into mean that for the time being I am not living paycheck to paycheck. So I am grateful for that and thank God. But I am realistic to know that many other millions out there are not so fortunate as I am in that regard. Two income couples today who raise kids are barely making ends meet. We are saddled with the burden of mortgages, car payments, and out of control gas, electric and food prices. Not to mention onerous taxes many of which are hidden. They include the income taxes applicable to where you live on a state, local and federal level, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, Real estate taxes, Sales taxes. Now if you look at your utility, phone, cable bills you may notice excise taxes. Here is Pa there are excise taxes of 5% added to the cost of your cell phone bill. Now the Obama care taxes. Most of the taxes for 2013 will affect upper income taxpayers but there is one insidious tax called the medical devise tax. And btw those of you who have cats and dogs and take your pets to the vet. and the vet decides they need a medical devise. guess what? You are paying a tax of 2.3% on that equipment. We are being taxed to death as it is.

the Obama care Individual Mandate is NOT free health care. its a tax imposed on by the Federal government to penalize people who don’t buy health insurance effective Jan 1, 2014. For 2014 the tax is low. It is the greater of 1% of your income or $95 whichever is more. But that goes up to 2.5% of income or $695/year beginning in 2016. Now a lot of people have said “Well the State forces people to be insured to drive why not make everybody have health insurance? ” well that sounds nice. But that was ruled unconstitutional by Chief Justice Roberts in 2012. This is not the same or even equivalent thing. Roberts set a very bad precedent. He gave the government for the first time in our history the power to tax behavior. The taxes I mentioned above fall into 3 categories. Income, Excise and Net asset/Worth taxes. Now we got behavior taxes. Let me illustrate with a simple example. Lets say that our government passes a law that requires you to buy a government mandated chocolate bar every time you walk into a convenience store. So one night you discover you need milk so you go to your local convenience store. So you go to the checkout line to pay for the milk. the clerk says to you. here is your chocolate bar. And you say No thanks I don’t like chocolate. Then the clerk says that is a $1 tax for not buying the chocolate bar. Now that example sounds a bit silly I admit but that is the precedent that Roberts set. He dramatically increased the power of the Government to tax behavior.

Now back to the cost of health insurance. Just by looking at what is available on the Highmark and Capital Blue Cross website these plans are NOT affordable and families are going to be punished. Deductibles are high. Premiums are not cheap. And due to the employer mandate being postponed one year millions of people are now going to be forced to buy their own health insurance. So what’s it going to be? food on the table or much needed health insurance for a family with a sick member? It could easily come down to that choice for millions of people.

And what happens then? Where else will people will turn to? The Government. That is done by design. Obama care is a pathway to Government run Health Insurance. Make no mistake this is the intention of Obama and the Democrat party.

And finally last week the Republican Party that was formerly conservative gave into all of Obama’s demands and allowed this radical piece of legislation to become law. They unnecessarily shut down the government and did nothing towards delaying the mandate or defunding Obama care something a large percentage of Republicans want as contrary to what you might believe if you read the mainstream media most Republicans are not rich. that is an illusion. Most are barely trying to make ends meet. So in effect these hard working patriots who don’t expect handouts from the government and are educated in political affairs are being abandoned by their own party. And Patriots like Sarah Palin, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz who are fighting for the people are maligned as extremists by both the left, the Establishment Republicans and the mainstream media.

So who is left for to fight for us.

We have to fight for ourselves. God gave us a great nation. We are exceptional people. We cannot allow it to be taken over by radicals. So in 2014 a good rule of thumb for national elections is to throw out as many incumbents are you can and replace them with grass roots conservatives who understand that they work for the people of this great country not the other way around. Too many politicians have been in Washington DC too long and its time they remember who they work for. That’s you . the voter. I don’t care if they are independent, Republican, democrat or third party.

maybe next time I will go into the employer mandate of Obama care. that is a quagmire.

Like Don said this country is a powder keg and we need to defuse it before its too late.